Haji Muhammad Mohsin Government High School (Since 1874)
S r e e r u m p u r , R a j p a r a , R a j s h a h i 6 0 0 0
Class 9-10 April 25, 2020
Class/ Activity 28
Cloze Test - 4
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. Use only one word for each space.
People visit a wise man complaining about the same problems over and over again. One day, he decided to _____ (a) them a joke and they all roared with _____ (b). After a few minutes, he told them the same _____(c) and only a few of them smiled. Then he told the same joke for a _____ (d) time, but no one laughed or smiled anymore. The wise man smiled and said: “You can’t laugh at the _____ (e) joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?”
Moral: Worrying won’t solve your problems; it’ll just waste your time and energy.
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. Use only one word for each space.
Two friends were walking through the desert. At one stage in their _____ (a), they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the _____ (b). The one who got slapped was hurt, _____ (c) without saying anything he wrote in the sand, “Today my _____ (d) friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking _____ (e) they found an oasis, where they decided to _____ (f) a wash. The one who had been slapped got stuck in a mire and started drowning, but his friend _____ (g) him. After he had recovered from his shock, he wrote on a stone, “Today my best friend saved my life.” The friend who slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the _____ (h) and now, you write in stone, why?” The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should _____ (i) it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must _____ (j) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”
Moral: Don’t value the things you have in your life. Value those who you have in your life.
3. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. Use only one word for each space.
It was an incredibly hot day and a lion was _____ (a) very hungry. He crawled out of his den and _____ (b) here and there, but he could only _____ (c) a small hare. He caught the hare, but _____ (d) some hesitation as he knew the hare wouldn’t fill him up. As the lion was about to _____ (e) the hare, he spotted a deer coming his way and thought, “Instead _____ (f) eating this small hare, let me eat that _____ (g) deer.” So he let the hare _____ (h) and went after the deer, but it _____ (i) in the forest. The lion now had _____ (j) to eat as the hare was also long gone.
Moral: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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